The Seattle Mist of the Lingerie Football League are holding a minicamp this week, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer valiantly sent a photographer to snap pictures of this watershed moment in sports history.  (I smell Puuuuuliiitzerrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!)  Also on hand was columnist Jim Moore:

“Yes it’s sexy, but we have to maintain the fan base by giving them good competitive football,” said LFL founder and chairman Mitchell Mortaza, who was at Wednesday’s minicamp. [...] When looking for attributes, Mortaza said the league wants players who are confident, athletic and beautiful.

“In that order?” he was asked.

“Absolutely,” he said. “But we’re not going to have 225-pound bruisers out there either.”

It’s what they’re tentatively calling the “No Fat Chicks” rule.  Anyway, we’ve got a nice little collection of photos here, but there’s plenty more at the PI’s gallery.  It’s the first time I’ve ever been aroused by pro football players.  Well, except for Steve Largent.  But I was young and hadn’t learned to suppress those feelings yet.

(thanks to Robert for the tip)

Being a Seattle sports fan is just one of the many things that makes my life a miserable series of heartbreaking disappointments, but the addition of the Mist to the fledgling Lingerie Football League is a rare bright spot.  The Seattle P-I has a gallery of the girls’ preparation for a photo shoot, and here are some of the captions to the photos:

Jenna Bloczynski puts her lace choker on before the Mist photo shoot. These chokers are part of the team’s uniform.

Mist recruit Natalya Snetkova rubs cooking oil on fellow teammate Chelsie Jorgenson for the team’s photoshoot.

Teammates Chelsie Jorgenson and Jenna Bloczynski rub their oiled bodies together.

Man, I wish more sports stories included the words “lace choker” and “cooking oil” and “oiled bodies.” It really subdues my desire to drink myself into oblivion.  Until the Seahawks lose next week.

(thanks to Robert)